OK.  I'll agree with that!!

At 04:03 PM 11/10/2002, you wrote:
No it's not Windoze.  I'm running Unidata PE on Win2000 and I get this:
* BBB - Test custom snippets
FOR I = 1 TO 100
  PRINT RND(370570)
  INPUT HUGGA
  IF HUGGA THEN STOP
NEXT I
STOP
:BBB
43874
?
27779
?
267409
?
138481
?
188948
?
243449
?
253422
?
282865
?
33416
?
351549

Must be a Universe limitation on Windoze.........

        *=aee=*

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Oh yes. That is the limitation on 32-bit Windoze. Your numbers WILL differ on UNIX systems.


At 02:36 PM 11/10/2004, you wrote: >I ran your code on UV 10.1 on AIX and the highest number generated was 370558 >I don't think it's your code > >Mel > > >UV 9.6.1.3 on NT. >I needed to generate some random numbers between 0 and 370570, and just to >check the distribution of numbers, I ran this snippet of code: > >FOR I = 1 TO 999999 > THIS.NUM = RND(370570) >NEXT > >What's odd is that no matter how many times I run this, the distribution of >numbers is always completely in the lower 10% of the range (approx). In >other words, there are never any numbers generated higher than ~ 33,000. > >Am I doing something stupidly wrong? >------- >u2-users mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ ------- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ ------- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
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